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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A related technical question to the nice post above about procedures. Does anyone know what determines whether planes are arriving or departing on a given day? Do they just toss a coin? :-)[/quote]

Winds from the south - airplanes take off to the south and land over Bethesda, Palisades, Georgetown (south flow, usually during warmer weather)
winds from the north - airplanes take off to the north over Georgetown, Palisades, Bethesda, (north flow)

About 65/70 percent of the time we are in north flow which generates a lot of noise for communities north of the airport such as Georgetown, Foxhall, Arlington, Palisades or Bethesda. [/quote]

Technically that is true. But the FAA sometimes opts for northflow departures even in south winds like this morning which means even more noise for DC. One of the members of the roundtable used to raise this issue a lot asking the FAA for more transparency. He has stopped doing that as if he was told to be a good boy. I wonder if the temporary suspension of the stormy weather procedure this summer means more days like that i.e. northflow departures even in south winds. I hope not.

IMO the DC communities are being thrown under the bus. [/quote]

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